Mercury and Venus at dusk
- From: laura halliday <marsgal42@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 May 2007 08:17:48 -0700
I spent some quality time on my balcony last night
with my old C8 and guests Mercury and Venus.
Venus is obvious. I've been routinely seeing it a couple
of hours before sunset, and have followed it this
apparition from a small nearly-full object to the growing
half phase it is now.
Mercury took a bit of doing. I couldn't see it naked-eye,
so I scanned the ecliptic with binoculars to see where
it was. With some landmarks from the binoculars I
reacquired the tiny spark in the scope's finder, then
threw enough magnification at it to see a tiny off-white
half phase planet.
It was a school night so I didn't do Jupiter or Saturn.
They'll keep until the weekend...
Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..."
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte
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